J/ApJ/658/345 CRIc photometry of Magellanic Bridge Fields (Harris, 2007)
The Magellanic bridge: the nearest purely tidal stellar population.
Harris J.
<Astrophys. J., 658, 345-357 (2007)>
=2007ApJ...658..345H 2007ApJ...658..345H
ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Photometry
Keywords: galaxies: evolution - galaxies: interactions -
galaxies: stellar content - Magellanic Clouds
Abstract:
We report on observations of the stellar populations in 12 fields
spanning the region between the Magellanic Clouds, made with the
Mosaic II camera on the 4m telescope at the Cerro-Tololo
Inter-American Observatory. The two main goals of the observations are
to characterize the young stellar population (which presumably formed
in situ in the Bridge and therefore represents the nearest stellar
population formed from tidal debris), and to search for an older
stellar component (which would have been stripped from either Cloud as
stars, by the same tidal forces that formed the gaseous Bridge). We
determine the star formation history of the young inter-Cloud
population, which provides a constraint on the timing of the
gravitational interaction that formed the Bridge. We do not detect an
older stellar population belonging to the Bridge in any of our fields,
implying that the material that was stripped from the Clouds to form
the Magellanic Bridge was very nearly a pure gas.
Description:
The data were obtained on the nights of 2006 January 4 and 5 (UT) at
the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 4m telescope.
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table4.dat 73 272304 Photometry of stars in Magellanic Bridge Fields
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See also:
J/other/PASAu/6.471 : Magellanic Clouds bridge region HI profiles (McGee+ 1986)
J/ApJS/101/41 : SMC and Bridge extended catalog (Bica+ 1995)
J/MNRAS/339/105 : Western Magellanic Bridge HI observations (Muller+, 2003)
J/ApJ/658/358 : Magellanic Bridge Herbig Ae/Be JHKs mag (Nishiyama+ 2007)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 A6 --- Region Region (mbNN) (1)
8- 13 I6 --- ID Identification number (1)
15- 16 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)
18- 19 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000)
21- 24 F4.1 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000)
26 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000)
27- 28 I2 deg DEd Degree of the Declination (J2000)
30- 31 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000)
33- 34 I2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000)
36- 41 F6.3 mag Cmag ?=99.999 The Washington C band magnitude (2)
43- 47 F5.3 mag e_Cmag ?=9.999 Uncertainty in Cmag (2)
49- 54 F6.3 mag Rmag ?=99.999 The Harris R band magnitude (2)
56- 60 F5.3 mag e_Rmag ?=9.999 Uncertainty in Rmag (2)
62- 67 F6.3 mag Imag ?=99.999 The Cousins I band magnitude (2)
69- 73 F5.3 mag e_Imag ?=9.999 Uncertainty in Imag (2)
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Note (1): Objects identified as [H2007] mbNN NNNNNN in Simbad.
Note (2): Magnitudes and errors of 99.999 and 9.999 indicate NULL values,
respectively. C filter has λeff=391nm (width=110nm)
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 21-Jan-2009